# Japan=Blue? Germany=Green?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-blue-germany-green/114283>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 16, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-blue-germany-green/114283 "2002-06-16T00:47:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-blue-germany-green/114283/21 "2002-06-20T08:23:58Z")

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I suppose England are considered to be at ‘home’…don’t know the reasoning but it makes sense to think they have to decide by some kind of criteria. Wish it were the other way around.

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